Improvement in button-holes



UNITED4 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. F. DIETERIGHS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,190, dated July 10, 18.66.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. F. DIETERIoHs, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a Metallic Binding` for Button-Holes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists of a metal binding for button-holes7 said binding consisting of a number of plates arranged adjacent to each other and. compressed to the fabric, all substantially as described hereinafter. f

In order to enable others to makemy invention, I will now proceed to describe a method of constructing and applying the same.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which the gures are drawn to an enlarged scale, Figure l is a plan View of my metallic binding' for button-holes as it appears when ready to be attached to the fabric. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section on the line 1 2, Fig. l; Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 3 4, Fig. l Fig. 5, a plan View of the metallic binding attached to the fabric, and Fig. 6 a seetional view of the metal binding compressed.

The binding' or eyelet A, as shown in the iirst four figures, is so formed from a single piece of thin metal that the upper part shall consist of a ange arranged at right angles to the body e, which at the bottom is curved outward in the manner of an ordinary eyelet.

(See Fig. 4.) At regular distances around the eyelet, and from the inner toward the outer edge of the same, are rmade a number of incisions7 b, each of which reaches close to the edge and almost divides the eyelet, and the object of which will be hereinafter explained.

In order to apply my binding it is first necessary to cut or stamp a hole in the cloth. A washer, c, of leather or other suitable material, is then placedv round the body of the eyelet, and the small end is pushed through the hole made in the cloth. The relative positions of eyelet and cloth will now be that shown in Fig. 4. By means of a suitable instrument the eyelet is now compressed until it assumes the form shown in Fig. 6, the cloth and Washer being compressed between the Bange a and the lower part of the eyelet. The Washer may be dispensed With, if desired.

As the incisions c extend nearly th rough the eyelet, the connecting portions of the metal are broken by the pressure of the machine, and instead of one rigid eyelet edging the button-hole there are a number of separate plates adjacent to each other, the Whole forming a flexible and indestructible lining for the button-hole.

I claim as my'invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A metal binding for button-holes, said binding consisting of a number of plates arranged adjacent to each other and compressed to the fabric, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' E. F. .DIETERIGHS.

Witnesses: l

CHARLES E. FOSTER, J ORN WHITE. 

